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DRY CLOSET.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES G. SHORT, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

DRY CLOSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,207, dated December 20, 1887.

Application filed April 25, 1887. Serial No. 236,034. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES G. Snorer, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dry Closets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to closets for the de posit of excrement, and will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a horizontal section of a closet embodying my invention, with certain parts broken away. Fig. 2 is a like view taken on a lower horizontal planeon line 2 2, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is avertical section on line 3 3, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail section on line 4 4., Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a section on line 5 5, Fig. 3; and Fig. 6 is adetail section.

A is a chamber that contains a stove or furnace, A.

B is a chimney or ventilating'flue.

O is the front and G the rear side of the closet.

D D are the entrances.

The floor E is somewhat elevated, and at one edge it projects slightly over the urinal-trough F, leaving a ventilating-opening, f, between the lower edge of the floor and the inner edge of the trough. Pipes G lead atintervals from the trough beneath the floor into an elongated pit, H, which is cemented to make it fluidtight and connects the chamber A and shaft B. Above this pit H are arranged the seats J J, the boxing of which is made air-tight, and is preferably lined with metal.

K are doors that open from the rear of the boxing and form part of the same.

k are pins that are arranged on each side of the pit H, and these pins support screens L Deflectors M project down from between each pair of seat-openings.

The stove or furnace has a smoke-pipe, N, and gets its draft from the outside of the stovechamber at N.

The floor E projects out beyond the entrance D and forms the platform E, and beneath this platform the space beneath the floor communicates through opening A with the stove or furnace chamber A, and as the floor is made otherwise perfectly air-tight all of the air that gets to the stove-chamber must enter to the space beneath the floor through the opening f. Now, as there is a constant draft in the flue B, as the air in the chamber A is heated it will be drawn from the chamber A, through the pit H, and up the chimney, to be as constantly replenished by the bad air through opening f, and as the heated air passes through the pit it will volatilize the fluid deposited therein, leaving the dried excrement on the screens, which may be removed and cleaned as often as necessary.

The screens L are preferably made in sections, to permit of their easy removal, and are preferably of galvanized metal to prevent rust.

The deflectors M are to cause the air to flow 'in a line near the screens and to prevent it from rising through the seat-holes.

The air in the chamber A may be heated by a stove or furnace, as before stated, or by a steam or water coil or hot-air pipes, or by any other suitable means; and a portion of the air from chamber A may, if desired, be used to supply the draft of stove A.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the seat-pit and urinalroom, and a heat-chamber and draft-flue, the heat-chamber connecting the urinal-room and the seat-pit, and the latter connecting the heat chamber with the draft-flue, whereby the air from the urinal-room is drawn through the heat-chamber, seat-pit, and draft-flue successively.

' In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES G. SHORT.

WVitnesses:

S. S. STOUT, H. G. UNDERWOOD. 

